Fashion & Film
This Fashion Life / Glamour / Masquerade
7 August - 14 November 2010
To coincide with the ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Past/ Present/ Future’ exhibition, the Australian Cinémathèque presents three programs of feature films, documentaries and videos exploring fashion and its relationship to cinema. The program profiles costume design by high profile designers, explorations of masquerade in contemporary cinema and documentaries on the world of contemporary fashion.
This Fashion Life
This Fashion Life presents films on fashion designers and personalities, runway models, and behind-the-scene documentaries on the creation of haute couture collections...Read more
Glamour: Adrian and the Golden Age of Hollywood
Credited for creating the ‘look’ of screen legends Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, couturier and costume designer Gilbert Adrian, known simply as Adrian, became synonymous with the lavish spectacle films of MGM film studios during the 1930s and 1940s...Read more
Masquerade
Masquerade explores the transformative use of clothing and disguise in cinema. The program brings together films in which costume design plays an integral role in the exploration of hidden identities and malleable personalities...Read more
